Sell-out Christmas show offered a sleigh-full of festive cheer

Katherine Jenkins

The 32-year-old mezzo-soprano said she had been in festive mood since she began recording her new Christmas album back in June.

So it was jingle bells all the way as faultless Katherine performed Away in a Manger, Deck the Halls, The Christmas Song (Chestnuts Roasting On An Open Fire) etc at Symphony Hall, which she described as one of her favourite venues.

Backed by the National Symphony Orchestra, the ever smiling Katherine (has anyone ever seen her pull a strop?) also did her best blonde bombshell impression during a cheeky Santa Baby.

Her special guest, the likeable American tenor Nathan Pacheco, also garnered the festive spirit by crooning Silver Bells and It’s the Most Wonderful Time of the Year.

Putting Christmas to one side, Katherine treated her fellow Welsh natives in the audience with bursts of Bread of Heaven, Men of Harlech, Tom Jones’s Delilah and the Welsh national anthem.